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> You don't need Emacs Yes, I do.

> and lose access to most things What "most things" are these?

No, you can just write D. It'll have the same performance as C, if you write C-like code. It might have better performance than C if you use templates (just like in C++).

Yes, that's my point. I'm replying to claims that "if it compiles it probably works". My limited experience with both is "nah".

Because it is also possible to write tests that don't adequately capture real-life requirements. It was an MQTT server, and the tests basically went "if we have these subscriptions…

Every language with a GC drastically reduces the chance of memory errors.

I hear this about both Haskell and Rust, and yet, when I tried both in the former I wrote a useless program because I didn't handle state (and yet passed all tests!) while in the l…

I made the same comment last week upon learning of a redis clone entirely vibe coded in IIRC ~70k lines of Rust. Why Rust? Why does a computer need a memory safe language?

I'm still figuring out why anyone would want to write a shell script in C. That sounds like torture to me.

Wouldn't the instance state here be "was constructed"? That is: you should always be able to call `Read` because the constructor opened the file, and you shouldn't have to call `Cl…

I just posted on the forum about it, I didn't do it before because of surgery (I'm still nowhere near 100%). What changes would you like to see happen?

FWIW, I just posted this on the D forum: https://forum.dlang.org/post/vwnefgsszqxobssylhmc@forum.dlan...

Proof of the fact that this works is that D does exactly this.

> What do you think, is there a potential niche for like NeoEmacs, a test editor written in a modern Lisp / Scheme I think that's a non-starter because you instantly lose the entir…

Switzerland has a population of 8.6M, isn't part of the EU, and yet... The problem there has been getting enough doses delivered.

If the array fits in the cache, deleting from the middle of an array and copying all the subsequent elements one to the left is actually faster than a linked list. And most arrays …

dpp* can't do function definitions yet but for declarations it's as easy as #including a C header file natively. * https://github.com/atilaneves/dpp

I think you missed the point where they mentioned you can change any and all keybindings in Emacs.

1. That's a rare use case 2. There are ways of measuring that without hampering readability. I mean, are programmers supposed to add all the variables' sizes up in their head??

And yet, it's worse than both.

> Source code is for humans The reason why making the scope as local as possible is important is for humans , not compilers. > Put all the vars at the top to tell the humans "here'…

That would be satan's language.

No need to imagine, it happens all the time in D, and it's not that bad.

Simple is better. People however tend to not agree on what's simple.

Not really - the concrete type isn't important, but what you can do with it is. One could argue that instead we'd use a concept in place of `auto`, and Bjarne has argued exactly th…